Pulvermaar

The Pulvermaar is a water-filled maar that lies southeast of Daun in the German province of Rhineland-Palatinate. Together with the Holzmaar it is one of the Gillenfeld maars. A tuff site in the marsh developments of the neighboring Strohner Maar is attributed to the Pulvermaar and is in this manner more seasoned than the Pulvermaar. Early dust investigations of the swamps gave an age for the tuff site - and in this way the Pulvermaar of around 10,050 years.

Later investigations appear, in any case, submerged patios at more prominent profundity just as ice wedges inside the tephra stores, the two of which recommend that the maar was shaped amid the last ice age, 20,000 to 30,000 years back. Vulcanologists from the Smithsonian Institution gauge the last ejection of the Strohner Maar and Pulvermaar in 8,300 BC. The practically round maar has soak pipe formed sides. The maar lake lies at a tallness of 411 m above ocean level NN and, with a most extreme profundity of 72 meters, is the most profound in the Volcanic Eifel.

It has a width of around 700 meters and surface territory of ca. 38.48 ha and is accordingly likewise the biggest waterbody of the Eifel maars, regardless of whether the volcanic structure overall, which estimates 900 950 m is surpassed by different maars in the Eifel. After Lake Constance and the pools of the Pre-Alps the Pulvermaar is the most profound normal lake in Germany. Almost certainly, the Pulvermaar was initially much more profound, maybe as profound as 200 meters. Its edge would have had a tallness of 50 meters.